- Protects on-premises and cloud infrastructure by conducting threat assessments and partnering with developers and product teams to surface risk earlier.
- Helps implement secure coding practices and operational security controls that fit real product and business workflows.
- Implemented automated security validation, reduced high-risk access paths, and enabled automatable backups and repeatable security checks across more than 100,000 hosted websites.
- Built network intrusion detection workflows to evaluate outbound traffic against malicious infrastructure and identify compromised workloads at scale.
- Improved account protection workflows by locking client accounts when breached credentials are discovered online.
- Contributed to fraud reduction and increased automation of security best practices.
Experience and credentials
Resume
Experience, education, certifications, and technical capabilities for Taegan Williams.
Profile
Application Security Engineer with hands-on experience protecting on-premises and cloud systems through threat assessment, secure coding guidance, and practical risk reduction.
Works at the intersection of business security, automation, AI-assisted workflow improvement, and secure software delivery.
Brings earlier experience in industrial control security, research, and infrastructure-heavy environments as a strong technical foundation rather than the current primary focus.
Experience
- Researches vulnerabilities in industrial control system equipment and protocols to improve defensive guidance and mitigations.
- Contributes to open-source tooling and analysis workflows used by threat hunters and analysts protecting critical infrastructure.
- Works across protocol analysis, reverse engineering, and research-driven defensive engineering.
- Helped design and administer on-site cybersecurity lab infrastructure for hands-on exercises and coursework.
- Built networked environments with visibility, monitoring, and educational tooling to support cyber range scenarios.
- Supported research at the intersection of training, automation, and resilient range design.
- Led front-end and back-end website changes, QA, SEO improvements, and client launches.
- Coordinated technical execution across design, content, and delivery constraints.
- Worked with industrial automation systems and HMI development in Ignition.
- Gained practical exposure to operational technology environments and plant automation workflows.
Education
- In progress, with emphasis on data-driven decision making, strategic marketing, and business analytics.
- Includes Critical Infrastructure and Resilience graduate study.
- Focused on ICS and SCADA security, automation, and security orchestration.
- Minor in Mathematics
- Minor in Business
- Certificates in Entrepreneurship and Cybersecurity
- Completed alongside GIAC-focused applied security training.
Certifications
Capabilities and tools
Application Security
- Threat assessment
- Secure coding practices
- Account protection workflows
- Risk reduction across product teams
Software Engineering
- Python
- C and C++
- JavaScript
- Security-focused tooling
Automation and AI
- Business process automation
- AI-assisted workflow design
- Security automation
- Repeatable operational controls
Background and Platforms
- Industrial control security
- Cloud and on-prem environments
- Secure software delivery
- Research and technical writing